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Beijing's leaders are running dissidents through a revolving door. This week three leading democracy activists, Xu Wenli, Wang Youcai and Qin Yongmin, were given 11- or 12-year sentences for subversion after sham trials lasting only a few hours each....

By sentencing three of the country's most prominent democracy campaigners to long prison terms, China has taken its harshest step yet in its current crackdown on organized political opposition. On Monday, after a trial that lasted just three and a...

Six months after President Clinton traveled to Beijing and challenged China's leaders to move rapidly toward political reform, the Administration's policy of engaging Beijing was called into question today when Chinese courts sentenced three of the...

The separate trials of two prominent democracy advocates for inciting subversion of the state opened and closed quickly this morning, with the families of both defendants protesting their inability to hire defense lawyers. The trial in the...

Protesting the lack of a defense lawyer, the father of a prominent dissident is to seek a delay in his son's subversion trial, scheduled to start on Thursday in the central city of Wuhan. The defendant is Qin Yongmin, 45, a democracy advocate who...

The subversion trial of one of the most prominent dissidents trying to promote a new political party in China has suddenly been scheduled for Thursday, family members said today. The trial of the dissident, Qin Yongmin, will take place in Wuhan,...

December 15, 1998, Tuesday

Two of China's most prominent dissidents were suddenly arrested on criminal charges on Monday evening in an apparent crackdown on their efforts to form the country's first opposition political party. The two men, Xu Wenli of Beijing and Qin...

December 2, 1998, Wednesday

China signed a key human rights treaty today that calls for freedom of expression and religion, even as the Government held a prominent human rights campaigner for questioning. The activist, Qin Yongmin, had his latest run-in with authorities as...

October 6, 1998, Tuesday

A leading democracy advocate who recently helped set up a human rights monitoring group said today that he was detained for 24 hours and that his fax machine, papers and letters and other items were confiscated by the police. The advocate, Qin...

May 22, 1998, Friday

A longtime Chinese dissident has sent a petition to Parliament calling for political reforms, a Hong Kong-based rights group said today. The dissident, Qin Yongmin, a former steel worker, was jailed for seven years in 1981 for his role during the...